Relic Says "Porting RTS to Consoles Isn't A Good Strategy

[MrKLM]

Relic the developers behind Company of Heroes states that they don't see RTS games making a good fit on consoles. (Massive doesn't seem to mind). Check it out:

Relic is famed for RTS games such as Homeworld, Company of Heroes and Warhammer. But the studio has so far shied away from porting any of its titles to console. A bold move considering a number of PC developers now see this a financial necessity.

"Relic sees RTS on console as a very interesting proposition but so far, it hasn't been a good fit for the games we have made," producer Mark Noseworthy told CVG in an interview to be published later this week.

The control scheme is again to blame. "We don't see porting a traditional PC RTS to console as a very good strategy because the controls, by definition, are incompatible with the game design. To do RTS on console right, you have to develop from the ground up and rethink what it means to have real-time-strategy gameplay."


There is some good news for Relic's console fans (the studio also did The Outfit on 360) though in the form of this little bone: "Dawn of War II isn't a traditional RTS and I think it would make a much better candidate for porting to console than any of our previous games but there are no such plans right now."

Read the rest of the article at CVG here.

[Infernalis]

Re: Relic Says "Porting RTS to Consoles Isn't A Good Strategy

Remind me of the portage of Supreme Commander on the Xbox360, it was hardly playable with a pad.

Afaik DoW2 has no bases construction, you only have to manage your units so yes it fit more on console, but not by far. Those damn consoles players just have to buy a mouse!

[[29ID]EZ|Cpl.Nex]

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and keyboard

[solofowaffles]

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Even xbox fanboys know rts on a xbox is a nightmare.

[MrKLM]

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I have a custom controller mouse for my PS3 so Im ready for some RTS action.

[imported_Will]

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Rts + Console = Fail.


Hardly Playable, and barely anyone on multiplayer.

[AlecJ32]

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Yeah, it'd be hard to keep up with things using a controller to play an RTS. It'd definitely slow things down.

[Piemaaan!]

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If anyone has heard of the new one coming out soon, "Tom Clancy's EndWar"

it's all controlled by voice commands :o

[Infernalis]

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Yeah i saw that, but that seems quite slow, this kind of game will never have the speed of game designed to be played with a mouse/keyboard. It seems fun tho, remind me of SOCOM on PS2, except the AI was awful.

[is_don_is_good]

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+1 with relics statement

[AllFoamNoBeer]

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Exactly, I fail to see how someone can effectively and efficiently play a RTS on a console.

[imported_Kilo]

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RTS is meant to be played on PC. Period.

[Idaeus]

Re: Relic Says "Porting RTS to Consoles Isn't A Good Strategy

^ Seconded.

[Eagle101]

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^ thirded